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Blending high-seas adventure and first-rate research, The Last Shot is a riveting account of the last Southern military force to lay down its arms: the efficiently lethal Confederate raider Shenandoah. Nearly three months after the battle of Appomattox, she fell upon a fleet of whalers near Alaska’s Little Diomede Island and sank more than two dozen ships in a frenzy of destruction. Terry Schooler makes history come alive, recreating Shenandoah’s final act of war and her long journey’s effect on the nation itself, including the near-demise of the New England whaling industry, the end of America’s growing hegemony over worldwide shipping, and the establishment of a body of international law that remains in effect today.

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Lynn Schooler, author of The Blue Bear, has lived in Alaska for more than thirty years. He is a two-time winner of Alaska magazine's grand prize for wildlife photography and winner of the National Wildlife grand prize.

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